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From: mcintosh@moncskermit.oz (Glenn McIntosh)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: a useful alias
Message-ID: <354@moncskermit.oz>
Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 22:24:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 22:24:03 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 23:23:52 EDT
References: <-745727@homer> <1004@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Comp Sci, Monash Uni, Australia
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In article <1004@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>, rlk@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Robert L Krawitz) writes:
> alias	ncd 'set d=`echo \!^* | sed "s/./\/&*/g"`; set d = `dirp $d`; cd $d || echo $d'
> [and includes C program "dirp"]

Another method to cause the alias to select only directories and not other
files is to add a "/" character in the appropriate place in the alias (I've
only tried this on a BSD system) i.e.,

alias c 'set d=`echo \!^* | sed "s/./\/&*/g"`/; cd $d || echo $d'

Tirian
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